Breakdaddy said:
Hi Gary, Glad to see you still lurking about! Do you ever play 3rd edition D&D or will you only play earlier editions? Also, since you seem to endorse Arcana Unearthed by Monte Cook, do you get to play this variant much, and if so, what is your favorite class?
Cheers,
Breakdaddy
Howdy!
Actually, I don't get to play any RPGs much at all, other than to serve as the Lejend Master for my Lejendary Adventure campaign. Time is short, and I seldom am away from the computer and work.
I don't enjoy new D&D, but I will happily play original D&D or OAD&D when opportunity presents itself. In fact, I am working on an extensive compaign base module for the upcoming Castle & Crusade rules from Troll Lord Games. It is an OGL-based system that aims at coming close to OAD&D, and it that effort succeeds, then Rob Kuntz and I will be going to work on producing a version of the original Castle Greyhawk that is suitable in size and detail for the C&C system and the strictures of publishing such a potentially massive work. In short, we'll cut the size back to something in the range of 20 levels, a bit larger than my original work but a lot smaller than the combined material Rob and I used to entertain player groups of 10-20 persons several times a week.
This will be a lot of work, as we both used very sketchy encounter notes, a single line was typical, for "winging' was the favored approach to all adventures. Quantifyng will eat up much time and space, not to mention the re-drafting of old level maps to fit the new configuration we have outlined.
The salient features of the original dungeons will be retained, of course. If the work proves to be sufficiently popular we can always supplement the base with add-ons too, just as we did with the campaign material through opening new split and side levels, placing transporters into dungeon areas to move PCs to separate adventure areas akin to those published as separate modules--DUNGEONLAND, LAND BEYOND THE MAGIC MIRROR, and ISLE OF THE APE.
As for Monte's ARCANA UNEARTHED, I was impressed with the work because of its faciulity of using the D&D base to present a whole new and substantially different milieu. I would have very much liked to play some in it, as I did the 3E game in the long playtest of the LOST CITY OF GAXMOOR, but that wasn't possible, as the Good Mr. Cook doesn't live in the Lake Geneva area
Cheers,
Gary